The history of Brooks settlement goes back many years of proving

 a linkage of family and tribes of people that are original Native Americans to

 John Brooks of the 1780’s. He was in the Revolutionary War.

 The tribe of people that lived there for many years became the

 talk and interest of the Eastern Carolinas

 which discussed the Social and Ethics and Cultural of Indians in the Bureau of

 Indian Affairs. Thousands of dollars came to Robeson

 County because of this house and

 community of Harpers Ferry and the people that

 were born in it.

 This is the home of Aaron Brooks and DalesediaBrooks.

 There children and grandchildren were the Indians that was recognized to be one

 and half or more Indian Blood that was enrolled in the IRA Act of June 18,1934

 . It has been recorded and studied and books have been written. Still, many

 more books in the future will be in the press. These Indian people were known

 as the Brooks family and the Red Bones of theCarolinas.

 Jessie Brooks was tested during the study of 102 Indians in

 1936 and he was the only one of the 3 of these people that qualified as one

 half Indian blood or more. Out of 3 people Jessie Brooks was the only trace

 back to several generation of the John Brooks that served in the Revolutionary

 War.

 In the year 1936, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier sent Smithsonian anthropologist,

 Carl Seltzer; Dr. H. Scudder Mekeel, and Major G. C. Dunham, Director of
 Laboratories of the Army Medical School

 at Washington D.C., to the Brooks settlement to study the Aaron Brooks family and the Original 22 people that came from this house. They studied

 for two weeks and examined Aaron Brooks and Dalesedia Brooks family at this house in Harpers Ferry. There were 8-10 people employed by the

 Bureau of Indian Affairs to help to understand the situation and study of the Brooks and Locklear family. The long house was the cultural and tradition of

 the people and tribe that was made up in this family estate. They became known as the original 22.